Search Results: Titles starting with K from M.B.Rare Books

"Zaum" (Russian: зáумь) are the linguistic experiments in sound symbolism and language creation of Russian Futurist poets such as Velimir Khlebnikov and Aleksei Kruchenykh. Zaum is a non-referential phonetic entity with its own ontology. The language consists of neologisms that mean nothing. Zaum is a language organized through phonetic analogy and rhythm. Zaum literature cannot contain any onomatopoeia or psychopathological states.
Manifesto is a theoretical justification of abstruse poetry, written by the poet-abstruse A.V. Tufanov (1877-1941). He preached zaum based on phonetic associations with words of different languages. He founded the "Order of the Zaumiks of DSO" (1925), which for some time included the oberiuts Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky. The book includes a treatise "The Seventh Art - Zaum" and cycles of abstruse poems "Phonetic Music", "Breakdowns", "Around the Globe". The cover and a folding table of speech sounds by Boris Ender (1893-1960), an avant-garde artist, one of… Read More

Reference calendar and notebook for 1924. Central Statistical Office of Ukraine. Kharkov, 1923 373, XIV p. Soft cover, reduced format.
Detailed information about the demography of Ukraine, geography, settlements, economy, etc. Numerous tables. Texts mixed in Russian and original Ukrainian. Illustrated cover, compiled in the spirit of the times. The book was published in the capital of Ukraine of this period of time - Kharkiv.

Photo and notes about the visit to Magadan (a Russian port city) by the leaders of Dalstroy — Deribas, Lavrientiev, Krutov and Berzin. Articles on gold mining, hydrogeology of the Kolyma river, geodesy, agriculture, reindeer husbandry.
As of April 2021, KVK and WorldCat show no one copy in libraries outside Russia.

The issue is dedicated to the Constitution of the USSR, obituary on S. Ordzhonikidze (one of the main leaders in Soviet Russia), Kolyma stories I. Gehtman.
As of April 2021, KVK and WorldCat show no one copy in libraries outside Russia.

A book of philosophical poems on a Jewish theme by the poet Samuel Zalmanovich Galkin (1897-1960). A native of the Hasidic environment, he wrote in Hebrew, then in Yiddish and Russian. Together with other members of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, he was arrested in 1949, but once in the prison hospital, he escaped execution. He served time in the Abez camp, where he became close friends with the philosopher L.P. Karsavin (1882-1952). In 1955 he was rehabilitated and returned to Moscow. He is considered one of the greatest Jewish poets of the XX century . Galkin's name was included in the "Alphabetical list of authors, all whose works are withdrawn from libraries and the bookselling network" (See Blum A.V. The Jewish Question Under Soviet Censorship: 1917-1991). With the inscription of the author - to the artist of this book P.A. Maslyanenko (1937). The only edition of the collection, a rarity. Worldcat shows only one copy in Harvard University.

Serova M. Who is this? Series `Read and Guess`. Drawings by E. Khiger. Petrograd, Publishing House `The Beginnings of Knowledge`, 1923, 30 p.Khiger Efim Yakovlevich (1899, Odessa - 1956, Leningrad) - artist, graphic artist and book illustratorIn 1921 he entered VKhUTEMAS, took lessons from the famous artist and teacher Kruglikova. He started out as a children's book designer. In 1924, the first book by M. Serov, illustrated by him, "Who is this? Read and guess", then "Pioneers" by V. Volzhanin, poetry collection by N. Tikhonov "Themselves". In 1925, the artist published the book "ABC in Pictures", which to this day is one of the best aids for teaching children the alphabet. In 1931 he entered the Lenfilm film studio and worked on the films Fire and The Secret. Illustrated books by Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Sholom Aleichem. Very rare.WorldCat indicates no one copy in libraries outside Russia.